My StumbleUpon Beating

I’m currently being pounded by StumbleUpon users thumbs-up’ing my geek t-shirts page, so will finally see tonight whether WordPress is capable of filling the gaps that my custom blog system left wide open. Just to be on the safe-side, I’ve installed WP Super Cache, which was the primary reason for ditching the theme switcher and [...]

BellaBiblio Amazon Ajax Bug

There’s a problem with the Ajax book finder in the current version of BellaBiblio, caused by an update on Amazon’s side of things. There is a patch which was sent over to me by Mat earlier today for those running PHP5 only, but because I’m “mid-report” for my course I’ve not had time to give [...]

Holy Bundled Software, Batman!

Last week, I installed Netscape 4.79 on a virtual machine to verify my bold claims only to end up with:

Netscape Navigator
AOL Instant Messenger
RealPlayer
Winamp
Netscape Messenger
Netscape Composer

…as well as palm top sync tools and a bunch of utilities. And people tell me Microsoft are bad for bundling software, pfft!
PS. fresh layout

Trip Down Memory Lane

I’m sat here digging through my old folders in a desperate attempt to find a half-finished layout or two that would be decent enough to give my website a fresh look without appearing obviously dated, and what should I happen across but a bunch of old layouts from my various sites. Some of these date [...]

Migration Back to WordPress

Yes, as if the credit link at the bottom of the page and the various “WordPress-esque” features hadn’t already given it away: I’ve moved back to WordPress. Before the geeky among you gasp and sigh (and the likes of my Mum wonder what the fuss was about) I will explain.
For about 6-8 months now [...]